Core E: Community Engagement Core (Harding)

项目总结(见说明)： 社区参与核心：部落-大学评估化学品暴露以改善社区健康社区参与核心将促进俄亥俄州立大学研究人员和太平洋西北部美洲原住民部落之间的合作，以解决部落对其环境中化学品暴露的关切，重点是了解接触多环芳烃(PAHs)的途径。我们的社区伙伴是乌马提拉印第安人保留地邦联部落(CTUIR)、Swinomish印第安人部落社区和Samish印第安人民族。部落社区从不同的来源接触到多环芳烃和CERCLA优先名单上的许多化学品：他们居住在受危险废物场地影响的保留地，他们从受污染的水道收集自给自足的食物，他们从受污染的土地收集传统食物。住房特点和传统做法，如吸烟食品，也是导致他们接触化学物质的原因。这些独特途径的累积暴露可能会增加与环境有关的疾病的风险。至关重要的是，部落社区必须了解这些接触情况，并制定文化上适当的应对措施和减少风险战略，因为他们不能离开自己的家园以避免污染，也不能放弃自己的文化或宗教。反过来，研究界必须发展文化能力，以便根据以社区为基础的研究原则与部落社区合作。社区参与核心的具体目标是：1)解决CTUIR对其环境暴露的关切，建设部落测量环境污染物的能力，并制定减少风险的战略，在不对文化实践产生不利影响的情况下改善健康；2)建立CTUIR使用的分析方法的部落能力，并帮助Swinomish部落印第安人社区和Samish印第安人提高他们对多环芳烃和其他化学物质暴露的了解；3)与其他SRP中心、EPA区域办事处、有毒物质和疾病机构、部落事务办公室和其他利益攸关方合作，向居住在受污染土地上的部落人口传播我们的研究成果和基于社区的环境健康研究原则。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): Community Engagement Core: Tribal-University Evaluation of Chemical Exposures to Improve Community Health The Community Engagement Core will facilitate collaborations among OSU researchers and Native American Tribes in the Pacific Northwest to address Tribal concerns regarding exposure to chemicals in their environment, with a focus on understanding exposure pathways to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Our community partners are the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR), the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community, and the Samish Indian Nation. Tribal communities experience exposure to PAHs and many chemicals on the CERCLA priority list from diverse sources: they reside on reservations impacted by hazardous waste sites, they collect subsistence foods from contaminated waterways, and they gather traditional foods from contaminated lands. Housing characteristics and traditional practices such as smoking foods also contribute to their chemical exposures. The cumulative exposures from these unique pathways may increase the risk of environmentally-related disease. It is critically important that Tribal communities understand these exposures and develop culturally appropriate responses and risk reduction strategies because they cannot move from their homelands to avoid contaminants and they cannot give up their culture or their religion. In turn, the research community must develop the cultural capacity to work with Tribal communities according to the principles of community-based research. The specific aims of the Community Engagement Core are to: 1) address CTUIR concerns regarding their environmental exposures, build Tribal capacity to measure environmental pollutants, and develop risk reduction strategies that will improve health without adversely affecting cultural practices; 2) build tribal capacity in analytical methods used by the CTUIR and help both the Swinomish Tribal Indian Community and the Samish Indian Nation to improve their understanding of PAH and other chemical exposures; 3) collaborate with other SRP Centers, EPA regional offices, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease, the Office of Tribal Affairs, and other stakeholders to disseminate our research findings and the principles of community-based environmental health research with tribal populations that reside on contaminated lands.